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Images of International Women's Day

Selected by picture editor Frank Miller

Thu 8 Mar 2018

A woman wears an earring depicting a purple ribbon as she attends a nationwide feminist strike on International Women's Day in Madrid. Photograph: Sergio Perez / Reuters

A woman with a female gender symbol on her cheek observes a demonstration for women's rights in Bilbao. Photograph: Vincent West / Reuters

Protesters form triangles with their hands during a demonstration for women's rights in Bilbao, Spain. Photograph: Vincent West / Reuters

Women members of the Oireachtas with the new painting featuring all 53 female members of the Dail and Seanad which was unveiled in Leinster House. Photograph: Maxwells

Lute Al Raad from the Time Travellers for Choice group at the International Women's Day march at the Garden of Rememberence where a protest march began this evening, finishing at the Custom House. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

The group portrait featuring all 53 female members of the Dáil and Seanad painted by Noel Murphy as part of the Votáil100 campaign to mark the 100 years of women's' suffrage.

Former President Mary McAleese addressing the 'Voices of Faith' conference in Rome where she criticised the Catholic church's treatment of women. Photograph: Patsy McGarry

Norma Laguna, whose daughter Idaly Juache's skeletal remains were found in the Valley of Juarez in 2012, takes part in a protest to mark International Women's Day at a memorial for women murder victims in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Photograph: Jose Luis Gonzalez /Reuters

Susanne Jungo climbs up the Prison Tower for the "50-50, more women in politics" event, which launches a campaign to have an equal representation of women in Swiss politics in Bern, Switzerland. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth / Reuters

Helen Wycherley with her 11 day old daughter Kate Breen at Cork County Council's Local Enterprise Office, Cork North and West event for International Women's Day "Push for Progress" event in the city.
Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision

Singer/songwriter, Loah, performing in the National Concert Hall Dublin during an event to announce a new five-year partnership initiative between the NCH and Sounding the Feminists to promote creative work by female artists.
Photograph: Chris Bellew /Fennell Photography

Hindu nuns shout slogans during a rally to mark the International Women's Day in Kolkata, India. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters

Brooke Walton (5) from Crumlin and Stevie the Robot, created by robotics engineers from Trinity College Dublin during an Engineers Week event in Dublin. Photograph: Julien Behal

A woman works at a textile mill in Mumbai, India. Photograph: Francis Mascarenhas /Reuters

A Palestinian woman farmer collects cucumbers at a farm in Tubas, in the occupied West Bank. Photograph: Raneen Sawafta / Reuters

Women participate in the "Beauty Run" to mark International Women's Day in Minsk, Belarus. Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters

Girls shout slogans during a protest demanding equal rights for women on the occasion of International Women's Day in New Delhi. Photograph: Adnan Abidi / Reuters

Women's right activists march on the street on the International Women's Day in Tbilisi, Georgia. Photograph: David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters

A protester hangs gloves with messages while taking part in a strike for women's rights in Portugalete, Spain. Photograph: Vincent West / Reuters

A girl holds a placard as she takes part in a movement against rapes on the occasion of International Women's Day in New Delhi, India. Photograph: Adnan Abidi / Reuters

A woman spreads paddy crop for drying at a rice mill on the outskirts of Agartala, India. Photograph: Jayanta Dey / Reuters

Women's rights activists display streamer that reads "Women's Empowerment" while marching along a busy street during a celebration of the Women's International Day in Quiapo city, metro Manila, Philippines. Photograph: Romeo Ranoco / Reuters

A women right activists raises a toy gun to protest against what they say are misogynistic comments from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his treatment of female political opponents, during a celebration of the Women's International Day in Metro Manila, Philippines. Photograph: Romeo Ranoco / Reuters

A street vendor selling balloons walks at a street in Hanoi, Vietnam, 08 March 2018. Flowers and balloons are considered the most popular gifts that men give women on International Women's Day in Vietnam. Photograph: Luong Thai Linh / Reuters

Women bang pots and pans during a protest at the start of a nationwide feminist strike on International Women's Day at Puerta del Sol Square in Madrid. Photograph: Susana Vera / Reuters

Pregnant Maria Timofeyenko (C), Anna Egorova and her 7-year old daughter Alexandra Sidorova, members of the Krepysh (Sturdy Person) family winter swimmers club, play in the snow on the bank of the Yenisei River during an event to mark International Women's Day in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Photograph: Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

Men stand behind booths during an International Women's Day event inside a shopping mall, where customers can rent a "boyfriend" for 30 minutes with one yuan (.16), in Binzhou, Shandong province, China. Photograph: Reuters

A woman hold sign as she takes part in an Aurat March, or Women's March in Karachi, Pakistan. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro / Reuters

A women holds a flower as she protests against domestic violence in front of the Romanian Ministry of Interior in Bucharest. Photograph: Daniel Michailescu / AFP

Members of the Russian feminist movement carry a placard 'Putin is not Women's friend' as they attend a rally dedicated to the struggle for women's rights and against the Patriarchate in St. Petersburg, Russia. Photograph: Anatoly Maltsev / Reuters

A member of the Russian feminist movement at a rally dedicated to the struggle for women's rights and against the Patriarchate in St. Petersburg, Russia. Photograph: Anatoly Maltsev / Reuters

A group who describe themselves as feminists against abortion demonstrate outside the Dail. Photograph: Cyril Byrne / The Irish Times